Compression not working about whitenoise HOT 6 CLOSED

It looks like the files are being served by Apache, not by WhiteNoise. Here are the headers I get for http://107.178.250.104/static/scripts_dist/common.min.b947a82fca17.js:

Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 311617
Content-Type :application/javascript
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:52:59 GMT
ETag: "4c141-51b632630d500"
Last-Modified: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:05:40 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian) mod_wsgi/4.4.12 Python/2.7.9
Via: 1.1 google

Possibly you have Apache configured to check for static files before proxying to Django.

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That sounds very plausible. I haven't configured anything in Apache though. I'm simply using runmodwsgi(mod_wsgi-express). Any ideas to how i could stop apache messing with my staticfiles ? maybe moving them out of the project folder ?

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It looks like runmodwsgi is to blame here, as it serves STATIC_ROOT if it's defined and there's no option to turn that behaviour off (I've just had a look at the code here.)

You could try filing a feature request with Graham to be able to disable that behaviour.

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Dayum :/ Ill try and make a request with Graham. Or else i will just fire up the application with exec mod_wsgi-express instead. If whitenoise can handle the staticfiles, using runmodwsgi doesn't really add any convenience. I'll give it a go and report back

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Seems to work when launching with mod_wsgi-express . My header now looks lige this

Access-Control-Allow-Origin:*
Cache-Control:public, max-age=315360000
Connection:close
Content-Encoding:gzip
Content-Length:101250
Content-Type:application/javascript; charset="utf-8"
Date:Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:55:49 GMT
Last-Modified:Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:58:23 GMT
Server:Apache/2.4.10 (Debian) mod_wsgi/4.4.12 Python/2.7.9
Vary:Accept-Encoding

Is this correct ? I

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Yep, that looks correct. Glad you got it working.

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